Suit of Swords

Swords are the mind: thought, truth, conflict, and the damage done by both clarity and its absence. They are the hardest suit to sit with and the most useful when you can.

Swords have a reputation as the bad suit. They are better understood as the suit that refuses to soften things.

The suit runs Ace through Ten, then four court cards: Page, Knight, Queen, and King. The numbers describe a situation. The court cards usually describe a person, or a way of behaving that you or someone else has adopted.

In a deck of playing cards this suit is Spades, the same ranks with the pictures taken off and the Knight merged away. The mapping is worked out card by card in reading playing cards as tarot.